On Sunday 09 November 2003 18:36, Martin Man wrote:
> The port is named CCAvalon Framework, since it is developed in C++ and will
> be released under APL. I'm not sure whether this name is not conflicting
> with the license under which Avalon itself is published because I'm not
> quite able to tell whether CCAvalon can be considered as being "derived
> product", and whether I'm not using the "Avalon" part of the name CCAvalon
> to promote the product itself.

AFAICT, you are not supposed to use Apache names in derived products, without 
the expressed permission of the relevant PMC.

> I'm not in any way aspiring (at least no yet) at making CCAvalon an
> official product of ASF (though I'd be very happy if it happens), but if
> there will be any interest, I'm willing to do the necessary.

That could be discussed, but as of now there are a few problems (see below).

> I can tell that under hoods we are using log4cpp (log4cpp.sf.net) to do the
> logging part 

Haven't checked this.

> and QT Library (www.trolltech.com) (controversal but
> convenient decision) to do the strings, hashtables and these lowlevel
> things. 

QT, OTOH, is a non-APL compatible license. IIRC, QT is under (L)GPL and the 
ASF has deemed it non-compatible to redistribute and/or derive work from such 
products.
That said, if it is "low-level stuff" only, this could perhaps be refactored.

> Doxygen (www.doxygen.org) is used to extract Javadoc-like
> documentation and the release is equipped with full set of testcases
> written using cppunit (cppunit.sf.net).

Haven't checked this one either, but same principle. BSD, Mozilla, APL are 
considered "commercial-friendly", whereas GPL, LGPL and others are less so, 
and not compatible.

> The code is compilable/working/tested under Linux and WIN32 and
> Debian/GNU Linux packages are being made regularily.

> I'm willing to answer any of the questions that can help to make the
> project public ASAP.

> Martin Man [the emeritus commiter of the Apache Cocoon II project]

If you were active committer, you should know the licensing issues already.

FYI, there is also a C# version under construction to run on .Net, and IMHO 
there could be forming a community to support non-Java ports.

Niclas

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